ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-01-04

Date: 
Friday, January 4, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
David James
Submitter Email: 
djj [at] ctio [dot] noao [dot] edu
Observer Support: 
Mauricio Rojas
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
Lori Allen, Cesar Fuentes, Kevin Reil, Lyndsay Old, Ricardo Ogado
Problems: 

None.

Comments: 

OVerall, very good night, with lots of data -- very poor seeing.

 

Wind shake on telescope seems correlated with poorer DIQ. 

 

Closing side vents and raising wind blind helped improved DIQ from 2.0" to better than 1.5"

 

 

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Temperature Max: 
14.00
Temperature Min: 
12.00
Humidity Max: 
65
Humidity Min: 
30
Wind Speed Max: 
12.00
Wind Speed Min: 
1.00
Comment: 
Generally very poor seeing

Quarters

Program: 
Proposal: 
2012B-0003 and 2012B-0569
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
8.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
0.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
DES exSV and NEO pilot program
Primary Investigator: 
Josh Frieman and Lori Allen
Institution: 
Fermilab
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
NOAO
Total Program Time: 
8
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-01-04 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8